Man evicted tenants for growing cannabis, then set up own grow house, court told
Man offered €5,000 to begin grow-house operation, court told
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Olivia Kelleher
The man had burned 33 cannabis plants which he discovered his tenants growing. File photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
A man who evicted tenants from his property after he found out that they had set up a cannabis grow house only to then take over the operation himself has received a two-year suspended sentence.
John Sheahan (48) pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to possessing cannabis for sale or supply and to cultivating cannabis without a licence at his home at Ardglass, Charleville, Co Cork on October 23rd, 2019.